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Staff can be proved employees even if their contract says otherwise

The 'legal status' of individuals can be identified as self-employed contractors, employees or workers

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News

  • Employers warned over serial ageism litigants
    08 February 2010
    Employers warned over serial ageism litigants
    Employers have been warned not to co-operate with serial litigants who lodge multiple age discrimination claims on the...
     
  • 03 February 2010
    Employers wary of new 'fit notes'
    Employers and health experts have given a mixed welcome to the final version of the "fit note" which is set to replace doctors' sick...
     
  • 02 February 2010
    Pope attacks UK equality law
    The Pope has attacked equality legislation in Britain for running contrary to "natural law" and restricting the freedom of religious...
     

Features and columnists

  • A new era for age
    14 January 2010
    A new era for age
    Older workers have fared relatively well during this recession. That's just as well, because with dwindling pension pots...
     
  • Copenhagen: climate change conference 2009
    17 December 2009
    Copenhagen: climate change conference 2009 CIPD Members or People Management Subscribers only
    All the latest HR news and opinion from the pivotal climate change conference
     

HR essentials

  • 09 February 2010
    Dispatches: Post Office Undercover
    If you want a master class in how not to engage your staff, last night's Dispatches: Post Office Undercover was it.
     
  • 09 February 2010
    How should HR deal with office romances?
    Valentine's Day is just around the corner and HR is once again considering the challenges of office romances. Mixing business with pleasure often...
     

Careers

  • Misty Reich
    27 August 2009
    Misty Reich CIPD Members or People Management Subscribers only
    I fell in love with HR during an internship at AT&T Wireless in Dallas. I had dreamt of being a journalist and going...
     
  • Ann Pickering
    30 October 2008
    Ann Pickering CIPD Members or People Management Subscribers only
    My first job was during my university holidays at Marks and Spencer. I enjoyed the retail environment, the pace and dealing...
     

Your say

  • 28 January 2010
    Business case for age
    As the JD Wetherspoon case study in your excellent article 'A new era for Age' (14 January) underlined, fundamental change on the part of employers...
     
  • 28 January 2010
    Testing the truth
    The recent rule changes proposed on employing Tier 1 highly skilled migrants bring added anxiety to foreign staff and their UK employers.
     

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